The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-12-08
THE OLD NORTH STATE,
PERSONS AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA.

oSh0ihels Exchanges, and Boiled ID own
for Its Busy Readers.
Durham's national bank is open,
Capital stock 100000.
The Swannonoa tunnel is to be arch.
ed, with heavy iron and stone.
Work will begin on the Durham &
Oxford Railroad next Thursday.
The Sunday cigar buyer of Raleigh
now pines and sighs. The drug stores
have agreed to close .their doors on
Sunday. Good.
1t is said that work will be begun
December 18th on the Shelby and
Cranberry railroad, which is to 90 by
Morganton and Lenoir.
All North Carolinians will be glad
to hear that Col. Duncan K. McRae,
now in Brooklyn, N. Y, is rapidly
regaining his health.
The grand jury at Beaufort Court
has found true bill against w. A.
Potts and Mrs. Lincke for the murder
of Paul Lincke last June.
North Carolina ex-Confederate sol
diers and their widows receive every
year $4,000 in the way of pensions
from the National Treasury.
Rev. Sam Small will lecture in Raj
eigh, December 23d, on "From the
Bar to the Pulpit" 1t is said to be a
laughable and interesting lecture.
Ma;.Robt. Bingham has made an
offer of tuition ($10O) to the student
of the Durham graded school who
takes the highest stand in it
Mr. E. NJ Robinson, Eof the U. S.
Fish Commission, is stocking the
streams in Haywood, jackson, Swain
and other mountain counties with
trout.
It is reported that G. V. Dockery
will start Republican paper at
Rockingham, Richmond ounty.
There are now Is Republican papers
in North Carolina.
Mr.. G. c. Daniels has sold the
Kinston Free Press to Mr.. w. S. Her
bert and will hererfter devote his en-
tire time to the Wilson Adrance.
B. F. Mclean has been appointed
United States Commissioner in Robe
son county, viceA. j. Burns, resigned.
and h. w. Pou at Smithfeld, to fill
vacancy caused by resignation
A number of negroes have organ
lied cooperative society at VIII
mlngton and have purchased an ex-
tenslye rice plantation near there on
the cooperative plan.
THE SENTINEL extends a cordial
grip to the High Point Enterprise. 1t
has entered its fifth year, and deserves
to enter its fiftieth. 1t is good pa
per and deserves success.
j. A. Houpe, Esq, of Cool Springs
township, raised this year six bales of
cotton on seven acres of.land, with the
aid of $3.15 worth of commercial fer
tilizer. That's farming.-Landmark.
The students of Trinity College are
soliciting subscriptions for the build
ing of Literary and Society Hall.
The cause is worthy one and has
The SENTINEL's unqualified commen-
dation.
The Methodists of Raleigh did the
handsome thing in presenting Rev. w.
G. Norman with a gold watch, and
Mrs. Norman with handsome silver
pitcher and goblet, at the close of his
farewell sermon.
Rev. r. G. Pearson has agreed to
go to Wilmington in March to hold a
He has been invited to
Winston and Goldsboro, and will pro-
badly go to both places. His next
point is Concord.
The Fayetteville Oil Mills are run
ming night and day, consuming Is
tons of cotton seed every day, produc-
ing $50 gallons of oil. 1t is profta-
BILE industry and we ought to have
more of them throughout the State.
The Drummer Case" came up be-
fore Judge Bond in the U. S. Circuit
Court in Raleigh last week. 1t was
decided against the State and the
drummer, Henderson, was released.
The States counsel appealed to the Z.
5. Supreme Court, and the case will
be tried at its next sitting.
Messrs. Theo Hill and G. Alphonso
Smith are furlously jabbing each 9th
er's literary sides with paper javelins
,hrous h the columns of the State
(Is.oo;oyo oror tbo 49,, oL x,o~xoJ
ion 'what is a couplet % Following
,he example of the fellow who defined
electricity, "electric-i-ta h -ah-is
elec tric-i-tah, why not say "cou-
olet is couplet," and let The white
wings of peace once more hover to
rest?
The Union revival, conducted by
Rev. r. G.. Pearson, continues with
interest unabated. Up to date there
nave been 230 conversions. So great
5 the crowd that attends the services
hat he breaches to the women in the
afternoon and to the men at night. He
breaches the gospel, in all its beautiful
He is-and there is no
questioning it-a wonderful man.
Nearly all the preachers in the city
assist in the seryices.-State Chronicle.
The old soldier who carried an
American flag in the Anarchist fun
eral procession in Chicago, defying
attack and saying that "they could not
get that flag at Vicksburg," and that